There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.
ALAN HIRSCHIf we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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We are going to need the capacity to take a courageous stand when and where necessary.
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Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles.
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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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You plant the gospel. You don’t plant churches.
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Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity.
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In short, we find the faith of leap.
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Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
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Worship that is in some way divorced from mission is counterfeit worship
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Go among the people. Don’t assume you know what church looks like.
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
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If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion.
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
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You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.
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